The Twenty-First Century Commercial Space Imperative by Anthony Young

Author:Anthony Young
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

COTS and C3PO

In April 2005, Michael Griffin was appointed the new NASA Administrator. One of his initiatives was assigning $500 million to the development of commercial cargo capability to the ISS. The Commercial Office of Transportation Services (COTS) was established at Johnson Space Center. In November 2005 Griffin gave a speech to the American Astronautical Society. He stated, in part, “I believe that with the advent of the ISS, there will exist for the first time a strong, identifiable market for “routine” transportation service to and from LEO, and that this will be only the first step in what will be a huge opportunity to promote commercial space enterprise…I believe that the ISS provides a tremendous opportunity to promote commercial space ventures that will help us meet our exploration objectives and at the same time create new jobs and new industry (Fig. 4.1).

Fig. 4.1The design and development of the SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule was achieved through a collaborative partnership with NASA through the Commercial Orbital Transportations Services (COTS) initiative (image courtesy of SpaceX, used with permission)

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